 Our mission is to help create both economically and environmentally healthy communities in which all people, especially those with low incomes, can reach their full potential. All of the Native American communities here experience extremely high unemployment rates. They're located in rural communities. CEI has, how we have benefited, is working with their staff. They have a very high caliber staff and with various levels of expertise and skills and experience. We came out of a civil rights movement. We do development. We make equity investments. When CEI came along, they opened all kinds of doors for us and it was just a great relationship with them. They did a lot of legwork for us that we just didn't have the capacity to do. Very helpful. We try to raise capital to invest in businesses, natural resources, community facilities and affordable housing in rural places, which is what Maine is about. CEI has always been a good organization to work with and I think the thing that separates them in many respects from others is their interest in rural Maine and their desire to understand and their current knowledge of issues facing rural Maine, particularly the forested fringe of Maine. I think they also better understand the need for economic opportunity in these areas. There are fish processing companies, Christmas wreath companies, a healthcare clinic that serves 20,000 families a year, Timberland managed projects with affordable housing Companies like Axiom Technologies and Machias. Axiom Technologies is a telecommunications company located in one of the most rural areas in the state of Maine. Trying to wire much of that county and all its levels from small business, e-commerce access with high speed internet to the kinds of infrastructure school systems need all the way into telemedicine and those sorts of things. I needed funding to roll out the broadband and CEI was one of our initial funders and have stuck with us every step of the way. And doing that with an entrepreneurial approach but with a social mission approach to bring capacity to all the opportunities that are there. CEI learned the technology, they learned the lingo. They started to connect the dots with the other telecommunications companies around the state. They learned about why infrastructure was important. They learned about why broadband was important for every home and business that in order to support and to grow the economy in Maine, we needed to have the infrastructure in place. The community benefited directly by acquiring parcels for future growth and economic development and that was all part of the same package and something that we couldn't have done without the help of CEI. They gave me a lot of support. The business counselors that I worked with helped my hand along the way. It's kind of exciting to be able to see change happen in a positive way. They provided quality staff to provide technical assistance to us as a native emerging CDFI. Working with Coastal has been a bigger treat because I think they have a better understanding of the issues that we face out here and the opportunities that we face out here.